Iowa USA-1959: Traditional Folk Dance Performance With Costumed Dancers

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationIowa, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Iowa

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Traditional Folk Dance Performance With Costumed Dancers — Clip Details

IOWA USA-1959: A vibrant 8mm home movie captures a traditional folk dance performance in a small town. Dancers in colorful period costumes—women in long dresses and bonnets, men in white shirts and dark trousers—move in a circle and line formation on a sunny street. A crowd of onlookers watches from behind a white picket fence, with vintage cars and houses in the background. The footage shows natural film grain and slight color fading, characteristic of 1950s Super 8 home movies, evoking a nostalgic, community-centered event.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124866048

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1319 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: iowa
Date: 1959 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Iowa, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1950s Iowa community-event requests needing editorial home-movie footage of a costumed folk dance or small-town public performance.
Period detail: Visible clues include mid-century dress, a white picket fence, seated spectators, and vintage cars in the background, consistent with the supplied 1959 Iowa metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld viewpoint observes dancers passing in formation while local spectators watch casually from behind the fence.
What appears in frame: The frames show costumed dancers, long dresses and bonnets, men in shirts and trousers, a paved street, a white fence, spectators, lawn, trees, and parked cars.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fade, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet gate borders that preserve the physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for mid-century public celebrations, folk performance, or small-town social life.
Historical context: The clip shows a public street performance with an audience gathered nearby, suggesting a community event without identifying a specific festival or organization.
Research note: People and recognizable faces are visible, so likeness and event-context review may be needed; no logos or audible music are indicated, and copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s Iowa home movie folk dance, 8mm small-town parade performance, costumed dancers street crowd, and vintage community event footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Iowa 1959 material, then similar home-movie scenes of folk dance, parades, festivals, and public street gatherings.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa home-movie frame of costumed dancers in long dresses moving past a crowd behind a white picket fence. — Costumed dancers pass a fence-lined crowd during a street performance.

1959 Iowa frame showing folk dancers in dresses and shirts moving along a street before seated and standing spectators. — A line of dancers moves past the audience in bright daylight.

1959 Iowa home-movie view of dancers crossing the frame, with a white fence, spectators, grass, and cars in the background. — Dancers continue the street formation as the crowd watches from the lawn side.

1959 Iowa frame of a costumed folk dance formation on a sunny street, seen from a soft 8mm home-movie scan. — The dancers continue past the fence-lined audience near parked cars.

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